Biology

Loralyn Cozy co-authored "The heterocyst regulatory protein HetP and its homologs modulate heterocyst commitment in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120," in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

Edgar Lehr gave an oral presentation entitled “Herpetological Inventory and Conservation Assessment of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in Central Peru” on Aug. 17 at the 8th World Congress of Herpetology in Hangzhou, China.Additionally, Lehr was elected into the Executive Committee (20 people in total) of the World Congress of Herpetology as Treasurer, one of four officer positions.

Educational Studies

Irv Epstein delivered the invited lecture, “Revisiting Global Youth Protest: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects” for the Education and Youth Studies Symposium, held at Beloit College on Sept. 26.

Music

David Vayo's composition, Entelechy, for trombone, keyboards, bass and percussion, was featured on trombonist Mark Hetzler's new CD Dig, released by Summit Records. The composition was commissioned by Hetzler and the University of Wisconsin.

Physics

Linda French spoke at the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Meeting on "Rotation Properties of Jovian Trojan Asteroids." Physics alum Derrick Rohl '12 was a co-author.

French also has been appointed to the DPS Professional Culture and Climate Subcommittee. This committee is charged with recommending actions that the DPS Committee can take to either remove or ameliorate factors in our professional culture that lead to anything other than scientific merit controlling members' ability to succeed as planetary scientists.

Gabriel Spalding was elected to leadership positions in national organizations:

Re-elected as vice president the Reichert Foundation, a non-profit foundation working to establish programs and grants for hands-on instructional laboratories in physics, beyond the first year of university.

Appointed vice-chair of the national committee on Undergraduate Physics Education of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Spalding also gave several invited talks:

At an international conference in Lisbon, Portugal (Ultrasonics 2016).

Lecture series at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, entitled, "A few considerations for faster-than-light and ghost imaging.” The talk was sponsored by LOCI, an advanced imaging center at UW-Madison.

A physics colloquium at Lawrence University, "Just Another Day at the Office: Faster-than-Light Imaging and Violations of Local Realism."

At the fall meeting of the New England section of the American Physical Society.

Political Science

Religion

Robert Erlewine authored a post for the University of Alabama Department of Religious Studies blog, "Studying Religion in Culture," titled "Constructing Judaism and Claiming Christianity: Modern Jewish Philosophy in an Age of Theory."